Reconstructing the Body - Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War

Zusatztext The book is ambitious and offers the reader a vast amount of diverse information to digest. Ana Carden-Coyne is Co-Director for the Centre for the Cultural History of War at the University of Manchester. Klappentext Carden-Coyne investigates the cultural response to the horrors of the First World War in America, Britain, and Australia. Wartime had ruined bodies and disfigured a generation, but post-war ideals of beauty and resilience influenced social, medical and cultural imagery that renewed faith in humanity and allowed people to rebuild their lives. Zusammenfassung Carden-Coyne investigates the cultural response to the horrors of the First World War in America, Britain, and Australia. Wartime had ruined bodies and disfigured a generation, but post-war ideals of beauty and resilience influenced social, medical and cultural imagery that renewed faith in humanity and allowed people to rebuild their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Carden-Coyne, Ana (Co-Director Carden-Coyne, Carden-Coyne Ana
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2009
• EAN: 9780199546466
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954646-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, First World War, Australia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Military / United States, ART / American / General, ART / Australian & Oceanian, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modernism, United States of America, USA, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Art & Design Styles: Classicism, Neo-Classicism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I